I’ve not posted anything for ICU over the time. I’ve changed to ICU49 and most of the tests were pretty green. Some changed from yellow to green, some stayed yellow – because I would expect a different result, but the community does not think so.

In this posting I would like to show the possibility to do charset detection when a special string is given. To summarize: the results are only hints with some mathematical confidence numbers (from 0 .. 100). In addition to the charset the system also tries to detect the language of the text – well sometimes it works pretty well and it is said, that the text should be longer to get more accurate guesses on the language ….